David Cameron Has Weirdly Sided With Russia On Human Rights In Europe

The Conservative Party's new
plan to pull Britain out the reach of the European Court of Human
Rights (ECHR) if it wins in the general election next year has at
least one international supporter: Russia's Vladimir
Putin.

Scrapping
the 1998 Human
Rights Act, which requires rulings at the ECHR to
be incorporated into British law, has long been a key aim of
the party. At his speech at the
party's annual conference David Cameron provided his shopping
list of grievances:

Rulings to stop us deporting suspected terrorists. The
suggestion that you’ve got to apply the human rights convention
even on the battlefields of Helmand. And now, they want to give
prisoners the vote. No, I'm sorry, I just don't agree ... We do
not require instruction from judges in Strasbourg on this
issue.

The
new strategy, released on Friday by the Justice
Department, aims to end the ability of the European Court to
require the UK to change British laws, limit the reach of human
rights laws to only the most serious cases, and balance those
rights against civic responsibilities.